Hughes has also been jocked up on Nick Alexander’s TITIAN BOY in the two-and-a-half-mile handicap chase at 2.20 and the pairing can click again after a wide-margin win over course and distance last month.

I’ll go for a treble tomorrow in the hope that Keith Dalgleish runs HERMANUS in the bumper at 3.20.

With three races worth in excess of £15,000, Ludlow is the main meeting tomorrow and I’d be surprised if Nigel Twiston-Davies didn’t have a crack at the Boyne Cup with BROWNVILLE (1.35), who has shaped well in his last three races without winning and has course form of 12355.

Southwell’s all-weather card won’t get too many juices flowing on Tuesday, but QAFFAAL (2.20) would be a good thing if sent for a hat-trick bid by Mick Easterby.

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